Educational technology leadership is by no means uniform across institutions. The work is variously distributed among CIOs, CTOs, teaching and learning centers, academic administration, online learning outfits and sometimes even smaller-scale labs, institutes or departments. On most campuses there is not yet an ed tech center of gravity around which the others orbit. Institutions must empower chief educational technology leaders as true partners in developing the core university strategy for the next era of learning. The modern era of ed tech parallels the development of information technology in general.

"How many hours do you spend daily on programming?" That was the question a developer recently posted on Reddit. Although the answers ranged from a few hours to full days (apparently, some people don't eat or sleep), the informal average was nearly six hours a day. This means that the developers who responded spend about six hours a day staring at screens and interacting only with their computers. If you're a fellow techie like me and fall into this average, it likely means you go long stretches before you connect with a fellow human.

"How many hours do you spend daily on programming?" That was the question a developer recently posted on Reddit. Although the answers ranged from a few hours to full days (apparently, some people don't eat or sleep), the informal average was nearly six hours a day. This means that the developers who responded spend about six hours a day staring at screens and interacting only with their computers. If you're a fellow techie like me and fall into this average, it likely means you go long stretches before you connect with a fellow human.

WASHINGTON – U.S.-European cooperation on economic issues is at a low ebb. Efforts to rekindle interest in mutually advantageous policies such as the revival of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are not likely to succeed for the time being. Under the prevailing circumstances, trans-Atlantic disillusionment has settled in. A better approach than letting mutual acrimony languish would be to focus on a joint challenge -- how to meet the resolute Chinese challenge to the industrial economies of the West. Chinese President Xi Jinping's growing consolidation of power is giving ever more momentum to the ambitious Chinese plan to gain dominance of high-tech industries.